Eastern and Central European Competition Programme IV
Czern/Black
Tomasz Popakul (Tomasz Popakul)
Poland, Japan, 2016, digital, 14'05”
A pair of astronauts is trapped on an orbital space station because of a nuclear war that erupted unexpectedly on Earth. They lost contact with Earth and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else have failed. All they can do now is watch nuclear explosions taking place on the surface of the Earth and try to survive together somehow.
Urbanimatio
Hardi Volmer, Urmas Jõemees (Voldik OÜ/OÜ Nukufilm)
Estonia, 2016, digital, 8'10”
A poetical portrayal of the evolution and devolution, ageing yet also constant regeneration of an anonymous city sphere. Its only companion and support is the music, which draws its rhythmic structures from the surrounding buildings and architectonic cadences. It makes visible by magic the dynamics of the coexistence of stone, concrete, wood and metal. Magical realism in its most natural form.
OSSA
Dario Imbrogno (Withstand)
Italy, 2016, digital, 3'55”
All the world is a stage. In this theatre a dancer becomes aware of herself. Her dance, destructured in time and space, shows us the mechanisms that pull the strings.
It's About Time
Ivo Briedis (Atom Art)
Latvia, 2015, digital, 6'02”
A message brought by the wind urges a lonely man to go out to the city, but there is someone who does not want him to leave the room.
Locus
Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi (WJTeam)
Poland, 2016, digital, 10'09”
A woman on an empty train in the middle of the night. Lonely, anxious to get back home to her husband and son. When the train suddenly brakes, she looks through the window. What she sees will change her life.
Dota
Petra Zlonoga (Kinoklub Zagreb)
Croatia, 2016, digital, 4'32”
An audiovisual weave in which an animated line represents the warp, while the female voice represents the filling. She who weaves and that what is woven intertwine through time.
Figury niemozliwe i inne historie II/Impossible Figures And Other Stories II
Marta Pajek (Animoon)
Poland, 2016, digital, 14'40”
The protagonist of the film is a woman who trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up, only to discover that her home has unusual features – it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions and covered with patterns.
Fortgang/Progress
Otto Alder (Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion)
Switzerland, 2016, digital, 4'12”
Fortgang is an experimental animation in which thousands of photographs of an old building from the archives of Otto Alder are brought to life in an animated document of impermanence and recommencement.
Nočna ptica/Nighthawk
Špela Čadež (Finta/RTV Slovenija/Bonobostudio)
Slovenia, Croatia, 2016, digital, 8'46”
A badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk from overripe pears! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.